Hamas accepts proposed deal for ceasefire with Israel and hostage release: Reuters

Hamas has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire connection with Israel that includes the return of fractional the hostages held in Gaza and Israel's merchandise of immoderate Palestinian prisoners, an Egyptian authoritative root said connected Monday.

Senior Hamas official Basem Naim confirmed the group's support connected Facebook. Hamas said different Palestinian factions informed mediators of their support also.

There was nary Israeli effect to the Hamas proposal itself but an Israeli authoritative confirmed it was received. Egypt and Qatar have been mediating betwixt the sides with U.S. support.

Israel's plans to prehend power of Gaza City in the bosom of the Palestinian enclave have stirred alarm overseas and astatine home, wherever tens of thousands of Israelis connected Sunday held immoderate of the largest protests since the warfare began, urging a woody to extremity the warring and escaped the remaining 50 hostages held successful Gaza since the Hamas attack connected October 7, 2023. Israeli officials judge 20 are alive.

Thousands of Palestinians fearing an imminent Israeli crushed violative person near their homes successful eastbound areas of Gaza City, present nether changeless Israeli bombardment, for points to the westbound and southbound successful the shattered territory.

In an evident amusement of unit connected Monday, Israeli tanks precocious into the Sabra suburb of Gaza City, according to witnesses who counted the beingness of astatine slightest 9 tanks and bulldozers.

Israel's Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir, said his state was astatine a turning constituent successful the Gaza war, "with its absorption connected enhancing the strikes against Hamas in Gaza City," the subject spokesperson said successful a statement.

In a video issued by his office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "I, similar you, perceive the reports successful the media, and from them you tin get 1 content - Hamas is nether immense pressure."

The Egyptian authoritative root stated that the connection accepted by Hamas included a suspension of Israeli subject operations for 60 days and outlined a model for a broad woody to extremity the astir two-year-old conflict.

A root acquainted with the negotiations said the connection intimately mirrored an earlier program enactment guardant by U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff, which Israel had accepted.

⁠The mediators met Hamas representatives successful Cairo connected Sunday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the Qatari premier minister, joined the discussions connected Monday and met some Egyptian President el-Sisi and Hamas representatives, said an authoritative briefed connected the meetings.

Israel approved the program to instrumentality power of Gaza City earlier this month, but officials had said it could instrumentality weeks to start, leaving the doorway unfastened for a ceasefire, adjacent though Netanyahu had said it would get nether mode "fairly quickly" and extremity the warfare with Hamas' defeat.

An Israeli armored incursion into Gaza City could displace hundreds of thousands of people, galore of whom person been uprooted aggregate times during the war.

Netanyahu has described Gaza City as Hamas' past large municipality bastion. But with Israel already holding 75% of Gaza, the subject has warned that expanding the violative could endanger hostages inactive live and gully troops into protracted and deadly guerrilla warfare.

Dani Miran, whose lad Omri was taken hostage connected October 7, said helium feared the consequences of an Israeli crushed violative successful Gaza City. "I'm frightened that my lad would beryllium hurt," helium told Reuters successful Tel Aviv connected Monday.

In Gaza City, galore Palestinians person besides been calling for protests to request an extremity to a warfare that has demolished overmuch of the territory and for Hamas to intensify talks to avert the Israeli crushed offensive.

Ahmed Mheisen, Palestinian structure manager successful Beit Lahiya, a war-devastated suburb abutting eastbound Gaza City, said 995 families had departed the country successful caller days for the south.

"I americium heading southbound due to the fact that I request to easiness my intelligence state," Mousa Obaid, a Gaza City resident, told Reuters. "I bash not privation to support moving near and close endlessly. There is nary beingness left, and arsenic you tin see, surviving conditions are hard, prices are high, and we person been without enactment for implicit a twelvemonth and a half."

The past circular of indirect ceasefire talks ended successful deadlock successful precocious July with the sides trading blasted for its collapse.

Israel has said it volition hold to cease hostilities if each the hostages are released and Hamas lays down its arms - the second request publically rejected by the Islamist radical until a Palestinian authorities is established.

A Hamas official told Reuters earlier connected Monday the radical rejected Israeli demands to disarm oregon expel its leaders from Gaza.

Sharp differences besides appeared to stay implicit the grade of an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and however humanitarian assistance volition beryllium delivered astir the enclave, wherever malnutrition is rife and assistance groups pass of unfolding famine.

U.S. President Donald Trump wrote connected his societal media level connected Monday: "We volition lone spot the instrumentality of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the amended the chances of occurrence volition be."

The warfare began when Hamas-led militants stormed crossed the borderline into confederate Israel, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and taking 251 hostages backmost to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

More than 61,000 Palestinians person since been killed successful Israel's ensuing aerial and crushed warfare successful Gaza, according to section wellness officials who bash not separate betwixt fighters and non-combatants.

Five much Palestinians person died of malnutrition and starvation successful the past 24 hours, the Gaza wellness ministry said connected Monday, raising the fig of radical who died of those causes to 263, including 112 children, since the warfare started.